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Re: Bye Bye Shuffle :-(

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc
Subject	Re: Bye Bye Shuffle :-(
Date	2017-07-28 02:11 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<etvkq4Fr511U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2017-07-28, nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> wrote:
> In article <etv3poFnndnU1@mid.individual.net>, Jolly Roger
><jollyroger@pobox.com> wrote:
>
>>>>> https://www.macrumors.com/2017/07/27/apple-removes-ipod-nano-ipod-shuffle/
>>>>> 
>>>>> Looks like Tim is pulling the plug on one of my favorite devices
>>>> 
>>>> No, *Apple* is dropping it. Apple > Tim Cook.  And there were no
>>>> doubt many people actually involved in the decision to drop it.
>>>> But by all means feel free to pick on one single person if it
>>>> helps you feel better in some small way.
>>> 
>>> the ipod team was disbanded a while ago.
>> 
>> And that too was not the result of a *singular* decision of only Tim
>> Cook.
>
> it was the result of hundreds of millions of people no longer buying
> traditional ipods.

Yep, and as anyone with a clue knows, it wasn't just Tim Cook sitting
there saying "STOP!". Multiple people were part of the decision making
process. : )

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JR

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  Re: Bye Bye Shuffle :-( Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-07-27 19:07 +0000
    Re: Bye Bye Shuffle :-( nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2017-07-27 15:10 -0400
      Re: Bye Bye Shuffle :-( Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2017-07-27 21:20 +0000
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